Knowledge-Based Policy Conflict Analysis in Mobile Social Networks

  • Authors:
  • Zhengping Wu;Yuanyao Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, USA 06604;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, USA 06604

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Mobile social networks give online social networking sites the capabilities to extend their services to mobile device users. Smart phones and tablets allow users to interact with each other when they are moving. Policy-based management simplifies the management of interaction functionalities by establishing policies to control various activities involved in these functionalities. To detect and resolve potential dynamic conflicts between the rules and configurations from different administrative domains, a knowledge-based policy analysis framework is proposed in this paper. It incorporates relationships between different elements in policy rules into temporal logic using a knowledge extension, which makes dynamic policy conflict analysis more accurate. A prototype system for mobile social networks is implemented to illustrate the capability of this framework.